- From: David G. Durand <dgd@cs.bu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:33:00 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@www10.w3.org
At 11:18 AM 1/14/97, Joe English wrote: >IOW, an author can use <?XML-arch...> to explicitly specify >which architectures the document uses, or can leave it out >to indicate that it (at least potentially) uses every predefined >XML feature. [Since the latter option is IMHO the moral equivalent >of using a one-size-fits-all DTD, I _personally_ would not want >to go this route, but there are plenty of current HTML users who >would no doubt prefer it.] I think this is very nice. It's simple, controllable, and it also gets a reasonable default behavior without being too yucky. >This is of course all based on the assumption that there >will be more XML-based architectures in the future; if >hyperlinking is the only semantic we plan to predefine, >I'd be perfectly happy with "use any GI as long as it's not >ALINK." Since I think the list of AFs is already going to be at least 4-5 items, I don't like this (my memory runs more to the minus rather than the plus side of 7 +/- 3) -- David I am not a number. I am an undefined character. _________________________________________ David Durand dgd@cs.bu.edu \ david@dynamicDiagrams.com Boston University Computer Science \ Sr. Analyst http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/ \ Dynamic Diagrams --------------------------------------------\ http://dynamicDiagrams.com/ MAPA: mapping for the WWW \__________________________
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